When ordering information for organizations located in Germany, customers are required to provide a valid order reason code. A list of possible values is included on the respective SOAP or REST operation page.

NOTE: The product code for Detailed Company Profile - WB1784 is DCP_WB1784. This product may be included in the Monitoring process.

Business Elements

The following table is an alphabetical list of the unique items delivered in this data layer. Legend: [C] = may be included in a Custom Data product; [M] = may be referenced by the Monitoring process; [M+] = Monitored using an aggregate or attribute XPath.

NOTE: This product will return a set of standard elements (e.g. D-U-N-S Number, Organization Name, Trade Styles, Family Tree Role, Primary Address, Mailing Address, Telephone Number, Fax Number, et al.) along with the business elements listed. In addition, customers who compare the following table to the Data Primer should be advised of several intentional differences.

Name

Description

XML*

JSON*

3 Year Base Sales Amount (Trend Data)

The Sales Amount from the income statement data in millions (USD) for the Base Year, which is the first (oldest) year of this three year trend calculation period. Trend Data fields are calculated once a year, in June, published the following July and used for the subsequent 12 months. [M]

The Sales Amount from the income statement data in millions (USD) for the Base Year, which is the first (oldest) year of this five year trend calculation period. Trend Data fields are calculated once a year, in June, published the following July and used for the subsequent 12 months. [M]

When 'true' indicates that the subject acts as an agent promoting the goods or services of another organization, e.g., Sales Agent, Purchasing Agent. When 'false' indicates that the subject does not act as an agent of another organization. [M]

Text that describes the legal form or structure of a business, as registered with government authorities, e.g., partnership, corporation, private limited company, government department, proprietorship. [M+]

An alphanumeric industry code identifying a business activity, based on a three-tier taxonomy developed by D&B as a complement to NAICS and SIC codes, that are assigned according to companies’ primary and secondary business activities.

An alphanumeric value identifying a business activity based on the scheme specified by the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code. The first four digits are external codes created by the U.S. Government. D&B has created extensions to more precisely define an activity as in the case of the SIC 2+2 (the last 4 digits of an 8-digit SIC).

D&B geographical code which indicates the city where the business is located for mailing address. For US records, the code is unique within COUNTY, for non-US records, the code is unique within COUNTRY. [M+]

The D-U-N-S Number of the highest level parent within a corporate family tree that is domiciled in the same country as the requested company. A parent is a corporation that owns more than 50% of another corporation's capital stock. A subject may be its own domestic ultimate. [M]

A two-position counter that indicates the number of family tree levels below the global ultimate business in its corporate hierarchy. The hierarchy level value of the global ultimate will always be 1. Each subsidiary level below the global ultimate is incremented by one. Branch locations in a family tree will have the same hierarchy code as its associated headquarter. [M]

A number recording a unique nine-digit FEIN number assigned by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to business entities (and in some cases individuals) operating in the United States for the purposes of identification.

The D-U-N-S number of the highest level parent within a corporate family tree. A parent is a corporation that owns more than 50% of another corporation's capital stock. A subject may be its own global ultimate. [M]

Text recording the business name of the parent company. A parent is a corporation that owns more than 50% of another corporation's capital stock; these owned companies are subsidiaries to the parent company. [M]

The first listed alphanumeric value identifying the primary business activity based on the scheme specified by the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code. The first four digits are external codes created by the U.S. Government. D&B has created extensions to more precisely define an activity as in the case of the SIC 2+2 (the last 4 digits of an 8-digit SIC).

When 'true' indicates that the Primary Address which has been presented is also the Registered Address. When 'false' indicates that the Primary Address which has been presented is not a Registered Address. [M+]

A registration/identifier number assigned by local government agencies to identify a business within the local market. Examples include the France Siret Number, UK CRO Number, Europe VAT Number, Australia Company Number, and Brazilian State Registry Number.

The monetary value of income received from customers from the sale of the business' goods and/or services. This means it is the gross sales minus any returns, rebates/discounts, allowances for damages or shortages, shipping expenses passed on to the customer. [M]

An alphanumeric value identifying a business activity based on the scheme specified by the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code. Clarification Note: These are generally external codes created by an external authoritative body like the U.S. Office of Management and Budget but D&B may have created extensions to more precisely define an activity as in the case of the SIC 2+2 (the last 4 digits of an 8-digit SIC). Can repeat up to five times.

The Sales Amount from the income statement data in millions (USD) for the Trend Year, which is the last (most current) year. Trend Data fields are calculated once a year, in June, published the following July and used for the subsequent 12 months. [M]

*The links in this column provide the technical characteristics for the data field of the respective business element in the XML or JSON response.

The preceding list is not presented in the order, nor manner, in which the information is packaged and delivered via the D&B Direct API.

While data for a particular company may not contain values for all of the business elements, there may be items that are considered by D&B to be essential to yield the maximum benefit of a data layer. If any of these essential elements do not contain a value for a particular company, an error code will be returned, and your organization will not incur a usage credit for the request.

The Product Availability Lookup feature may be utilized to determine if this D&B Direct product is available for a given D-U-N-S Number.

The availability of certain scores delivered by this product may be limited due to a lack of sufficient company or industry specific data to perform the calculations.

WorldBase Compatibility

The following fields are included in this data layer for existing D&B customers who may have internal systems and/or processes that rely upon these codes:

New implementations should be developed using the corresponding fields that are based on coding standards for geographic locations. For example, instead of CountryWorldBaseCode, please use CountryISOAlpha2Code.

A conversion table for WorldBase to ISO codes is available on the Country Chart tab (far right column contains the WorldBase codes) of the downloadable Data Primer.

Additional Details

Access to this information is provided on a metered basis; and will require data layer entitlement prior to use in the production environment. A built-in feature exists to prevent duplicate billing when multiple requests with the same D-U-N-S Number and product code are submitted on the same calendar day (which is based on Eastern Standard Time [GMT-5]).

An option exists to retain the results from all successful requests for this product in a Product Request Archive, which may be retrieved without incurring additional usage charges.